Dennis is correct. I am not a lawyer but I can read. Some law professors state President Trump has a very strong defense and some say he does not. The courts and a jury will tell us who is correct, all else is speculation.

Ben Franklin did not know the direction current flowed because he had no instrument to tell him and he had to guess. He did guess wrong. I was taught that AC current flows through the wire like water in a pipe and DC current travels through wire only on the surface of the wire. That is why household wire (Romex) is single stranded and automotive wire is multi stranded. The information may have changed and I would be open to knowing.

Last night returning home from visiting my nephew and his wife I was in the right hand lane of the Interstate driving 68 mph in a 70 zone. A late model Ford doing at least 100 passed me on the right, swerved to the left across the freeway into the left inner lane, back to the middle lane and was gone. Not a cop in sight. If I did something like that a cop would be there and not put me in jail. They would pick up the corner of the jail and put me under it.

When they quit calling the employment office employment and started calling it human resources it started downhill. People are people and employed or hired. Resources are dehumanizing and used.

Exactly, they have been doing the same thing for years with ink for printers. Perhaps Canon has not gone that far yet, one of mine will take a generic battery but will not show the charge remaining. Expect more manufacturers to do the same.

Jerry: I live in Eastern Washington now. AZ in the winter, I am in WA now. If I drive to the closest WA. Flying J to fill up it is 10 miles and costs $4.599 a gallon. If I drive 4 miles to the Flying J in Idaho it cost 3.499 a gallon. Guess where I go. Also my Hybrid gets 45 miles to the gallon.

Harry I think you are mostly right but there is something else. The basics, if you cannot read it is hard to learn some things,s if you can read learning is much easier. If you know math you can understand some concepts easier and with more clarity. With the basics you can learn much on your own. Civics helps you understand how government works and can keep you out of some trouble. You learn free speech applies to the government and not your neighbor for example. Your neighbor on his property can tell you to stop talking. You are correct about living in a different world however, I am 89 so I am not talking about yesterday. My mother used to say the kids today are so smart and I would tell her they are no smarter than the older generations. They just know different things. I can change a tire on my car but I don't think I could change an iron tire on a covered wagon. I know how to drive a stick shift car but kids today don't have to know that. I asked my mom when your dad butchered a cow on the farm in June or July what did you do to preserve all that meat. I would think smoke it but there must have been other ways to keep meat for months without smoking it. I think if we woke up tomorrow morning and had no refrigeration in six months half the country would be dead. The basics help us go back and learn the things we missed the first time around.

Even newer method. If you have a newer car that automatically dims your headlight for oncoming traffic there is now a device that if you connect it to the headlight wires will connect with the car computer and they can open doors and start and drive car away without a key or anything else. Car computer thinks it is a fob.

Paregoric is camphorated opium and a little on a q-tip was great for teething babies. It was prescription only but I used it on all of our kids.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines gender dysphoria as a mental illness. The main problem is that a minority of people would have a mental illness called normal and normality called a mental illness. It is the act of calling abnormal behavior you agree with as normal and normal behavior you disagree with as abnormal that causes confusion and hostility. Children must not be subjected to this.

Being a pilot is different. Years ago my flight instructor told me if something happens while flying and you do not like what you see, close your eyes.

I have a mild form of gastroparesis and Canada Dry Bold ginger ale and A&W root beer really does help. I go to the ginger ale first and use the root beer if I am out of the Bold or if the Commissary is out. No cure for gastroparesis.

Galileo Galilei richly deserved his fate and it was a mistake to forgive him. Cardinal Bellermine did everything he could to help Galileo, he admitted that the Vatican astronomers agreed with Galileo but needed time to introduce a concept that contradicted the Bible. Galileo called the Pope a fool in public and openly committed perjury and everyone knew it. The Papal court ignored the perjury and Galileo did not learn from it. He openly said that God had given it to him to make all the discoveries of the universe and that Kepler was wrong about planetary orbits. He was an arrogant individual.

It has not worked in the past. In the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s the Federal Public Health Service ran two drug hospitals that addicts could go to instead of prisons for treatment. In the 1950s I knew a doctor that had been a patient in one and an addict that had also been in one. The doctor was cured because he got addicted to Demerol when it was thought to be non-addicting (a lot of doctors and nurses paid the price of that mistake) and he was not a psychological addict. The other was not cured and the hospitals were closed because they did not work and were expensive to run. The real addict started smoking opium in 1928 and forgot more about narcotics than I ever knew. In 1950 he was still addicted. He used to scrape the YenShe out of his opium pipe and keep it to eat for withdrawal symptom when he could not get opiates. He would also check into a hotel and go cold turkey when his habit got to expensive and knock a $100 a day habit down to $20 a day. Addicts today won't do that, they will cut your throat for the money to buy drugs.

Go back to the late 1800s and early 1900s and see what happened when it was all legal. If you can read "Four White Horses and a Brass Band" Much has been forgotten.